Here’s another image from the viral internet zone and it is truly something that you don’t see everyday.

It is an image by amateur photographer Martin Le-May, showing a weasel attacking a green woodpecker and being taken for a ride through the air.  The photograph was taken at Hornchurch Country Park in east London.  It is one of those once-in-a-lifetime shots that reward the photographically prepared, aka someone carrying a camera and having just the right lens at the right time.

Le-May said that: “I heard a distressed squawking noise and feared the worst…I soon realised it was a woodpecker with some kind of small mammal on its back…I think we may have distracted the weasel as when the woodpecker landed it managed to escape and the weasel ran into the grass.”

Don’t be fooled by any cute and cuddly stuff.  Weasels are ferocious preditors, which, fortunately for us, usually only attack animals their own size. Birds are not their usual lunch.  In any event, what a wonderful shot!